Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were engaged at the fishing , signore . |
| 2 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 3 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 4 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 5 | I think , was it Colin I was talk , we were looking at a Porsche the other day , and he was drooling over this Porsche , and yet it does n't do anything for me . |
| 6 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 7 | We were looking at a plant which was a little like cow parsley but smaller , its leaves more feathery . |
| 8 | Cast your minds back , last week we were looking at the relationship between price elasticity of demand and marginal revenue , and what that relationship could tell us about er prices and total revenue in an industry . |
| 9 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 10 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 11 | and maybe , you know , that 's not such a good thing , but we were looking at the Phillips , erm |
| 12 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 13 | Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console . |
| 14 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 15 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 16 | Last week , for example we were looking at the mind boggling distances that we encounter when we journey across the universe . |
| 17 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 18 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 19 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 20 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 21 | They erm wa when we to we , we were staying at the Claremont and I do n't , oh , I think we just decided we 'd find a cup of coffee . |
| 22 | We were joined at the Rivermead post by a jolly girl from Chelsea called ‘ George . ’ |
| 23 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 24 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 25 | We were greeted at the hotel with several messages from the airport . |
| 26 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 27 | About an hour later it arrived but we were standing at the bar when we had er ordered it . |
| 28 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 29 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 30 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |